Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi 2011
| Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi 2011 | |
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| Host country |
 Italy
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| Competition period | February 5, 2011 |
| overall length | 186.1 kilometers |
| Starting field | 140 drivers in 15 teams (108 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Elia Viviani 4:35:35 h 2. Roberto Ferrari same time 3. Elia Favilli same time
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| ← 2010 | 2012 → |
The 16th Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi took place on February 5, 2011. It was part of the UCI Europe Tour 2011 , classified in category 1.1 and the first one-day race of the 2011 season in Italy . It took place in the province of Livorno . The total distance of the bike race was 186.1 kilometers.
Participants and course of the race
With the exception of Team WIT, all nine Italian professional teams were at the start , including the ProTeams Lampre-ISD and Liquigas-Cannondale . Ag2r La Mondiale provided the third ProTeam, and the Spanish Professional Continental Team Geox-TMC as well as the Continental Teams Meridiana Kamen (Croatia), Ora Hotels Carrera (Hungary) and the Austrian and Swiss teams Vorarlberg and Atlas Personal received invitations. Five German, five Swiss and four Austrian drivers started.
The route led the field of participants over 186.1 kilometers from Larderello to the Etruscan coast to Donoratico , where a large loop was made through the coastal area and hinterland. There were four smaller inclines in total, but the last 40 kilometers of the race were largely flat. The four-man breakaway group with Austrian Matthias Brändle from Geox-TMC dominated the race for 150 kilometers before Brändle was last of the quartet two kilometers from the finish line. In the mass sprint that followed, the Italian Elia Viviani from Liquigas-Cannondale won the race after preliminary work by his team-mate Peter Sagan and relegated two compatriots, Roberto Ferrari and Elia Favilli .
Final score
| driver | nation | team | time | |
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| 1. | Elia Viviani |
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Liquigas-Cannondale | 4:35:35 h |
| 2. | Roberto Ferrari |
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Androni Giocattoli | same time |
| 3. | Elia Favilli |
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Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli | same time |
| 4th | Peter Sagan |
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Liquigas-Cannondale | same time |
| 5. | Filippo Baggio |
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De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia | same time |
| 6th | Maximiliano Richeze |
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D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo | same time |
| 7th | Manuel Belletti |
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Colnago-CSF Inox | same time |
| 8th. | Francesco Gavazzi |
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Lampre ISD | same time |
| 9. | Danilo Napolitano |
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Acqua & Sapone | same time |
| 10. | Giuseppe De Maria |
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De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia | same time |